单词 | one-drop |
释义 | one-dropn. Originally Jamaican. A type of drum rhythm used in reggae music, with strong emphasis on the third beat rather than the expected first and third in a bar of four beats; (also) music featuring this type of rhythm. Chiefly attributive: designating such a rhythm or type of music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms triplac1550 semibreve time1591 common measure1597 common time1597 nonupla1597 triple1597 binary measure1609 triple time1654 treble time1686 ternary measure or time1728 alla breve1731 ribattuta1740 four-four time1826 compound time1848 dotted rhythm1872 six-eight tempo1873 six-four1873 six-eight time1884 six-four time1884 six-two time1884 twelve-eight1884 slow drag1901 two-rhythm1901 three-four1902 sprung rhythm1944 songo1978 one-drop1979 1979 B. Marley One Drop (transcript of song) in Compl. Lyrics B. Marley (2001) 103 Feel it in the one drop And we'll still find time to rap. 1991 New Musical Express 31 Aug. 23/2 Ex-Brighton Rock gangleader makes pleasant groover going for the Omar market, and that would be all you'd need to know were there not also ragga, one-drop and straight reggae versions. 2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 4 Dec. 99/1 His twangy, nuanced vocals spiraled over reggae's one-drop riddim. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). one-dropadj. U.S. Now chiefly historical. attributive. Designating an ideology in which a person is regarded as black if he or she has even the smallest degree of black African ancestry. Frequently in one-drop rule, one-drop theory. ΚΠ 1924 Pittsburgh Courier 1 Mar. 15/1 (heading) Virginian says Negro race too near White. Alarmed over ‘light’ element, Anglo-Saxon urges ‘one-drop’ law. 1927 Amer. Mercury Dec. 389/2 The dark brother is convulsed with mirth over the famous one-drop theory, that distinctive contribution to the science of anthropology which lists as Negroes all people having the remotest Negro ancestry, despite the fact they may be..indistinguishable from the purest Nordic. 1944 J. A. Rogers Sex & Race III. p. viii The United States Census Bureau..decrees that if one has a known Negro ancestor, he is a Negro... As long as the ‘one drop’ theory remains refutation of alleged inferiority must follow the arbitrary lines set by the Bureau of the Census. 1976 J. G. Mencke Mulattoes & Race Mixture (Dissertation, Univ. North Carolina) ii. 68 These ideas involved the nearly universal acceptance of what might be termed the ‘one drop rule’, the belief that regardless of how distant a mulatto's black ancestry might be..he nevertheless remained a Negro. 1995 M. Lind Next Amer. Nation iii. 121 Should old-time southern state constitutions be ransacked for official definitions of negritude and whiteness? Should we adopt the ‘one drop’ theory, or the ‘one-quarter’ theory? 2000 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 22 Oct. 15/3 The one-drop rule succeeded all too well, so much so that its most devoted adherents today are African-Americans. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1979adj.1924 |
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